Who can resist a good pie chart? War Resisters League
Current military” includes Dept. of Defense ($449 billion), the military portion from other departments ($114 billion), and an unbudgetted estimate of supplemental appropriations ($100 billion). “Past military” represents veterans’ benefits plus 80% of the interest on the debt.
These figures are from an analysis of detailed tables [...]
Joseph Stiglitz examines the remarkable growth of China’s economy and notes that
Market economies are not self-regulating. They cannot simply be left on autopilot, especially if one wants to ensure that their benefits are shared widely. But managing a market economy is no easy task. It is a balancing act that must constantly respond to economic [...]
Arstechnica implies these 61% actually prefer the MSN Messenger protocol but it seems more likely that they either had no choice or didn’t think twice about it. Results also vary wildly between geographic regions. But seriously, doesn’t anyone use the ICQ protocol anymore? I could see myself moving to … anything but MSN. Offline messages [...]
Times Online notes that pharmaceutical companies are “systematically creating diseases in order to sell more of their products, turning healthy people into patients and placing many at risk of harm.”
Thankfully, so far, this is only a matter of promoting non-existent illnesses or exaggerating minor maladies. But one could well imagine a world where drug companies [...]
The empire can be quite overwhelming. In a perfect world one would have the time and resources to go after every single headline but alas one does not.
Mental patient facing charges for threatening Bush Apparently being ‘crazy’ isn’t an excuse. Could possibly be because the man in question is noted as being Palestinian.
DHS arrests teacher [...]
Greenpeace : Soy beans grown in illegally deforested areas of the Amazon are used to feed chickens which later end up at McDonald’s and other fast food places, mainly in Europe. And not only that but the practise of course goes hand in hand with equally illegal logging and the morally bankrupt practise of debt [...]
In other news, jumping off cliffs can be detrimental to your health. So at least in North America, only 1% actually download and listen to Podcasts. I’m not surprised. Personally I’ve never done it. I don’t even use streaming media. In fact I can barely define what strictly constitutes a Podcast. I like things I [...]
And makes not so veiled threats against British resellers. Also notes that every naked PC sold is an opportunity missed to bundle as much crap as possible to hike the price.
The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) has documented how television newsrooms use video news releases (VNR or fake news) instead of doing their job. And worse still, the material is being presented completely uncritically and without divulging its true purpose nor who is behind the PR clips.
In sum, television newscasts — the most popular [...]
Because British police doesn’t want to discourage nutjobs from calling terrorist on people singing along to The Clash they decided to nab the guy doing just that to Clash classic “London Calling.”
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